Provenance: Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Scholarship and technical training abroad gave Manansala more opportunities to hone his artistic skills and meet more influential, progressive mentors and artists. Among the grants he received was the Smith-Mundt-Specialist Grant which gave him the opportunity to study stained-glass making in New York. He created a few series of stained-glass works in which he skillfully achieved the leaded, “cloison effect” as seen in this 1960 piece, Carabao. Manansala depicted a time-honored subject, the carabao, which appears often in his genre paintings. This is one of his works created in the artistic phase characterized by a vibrancy of color and stronger assertiveness of surface. Highly imaginative with a quality of enveloping aura, the basic evocative lines and shapes define the face in Manansala’s distinct Cubist flair.